The Paper Girl

Antique & Vintage Ephemera Since 2019

4 Vintage Spring Images

Good morning!

Today we’re getting into the spirit of spring (finally) with some floral arrangements and a cute duck. Yes, a duck. Look at this little thing.

It’s so happy! Believe it or not, this critter came from a midcentury bridal shower card. Graphics from wedding-related things are wild, y’all. They range from birds to umbrellas (ha ha, literal shower, oh ho ho get it?) and stuff that’s even more unrelated to… getting gifts for one’s wedding.

Anyway, I promised MORE SPRING!

It’s a fabric or paper fan with flowers all over it. Another little something from a midcentury greeting card. Greeting cards are difficult to scan because so many of them have weirdly textured paper, so I’m always ecstatic to find something that isn’t like that.

These would look nice layered with other flowers. So would this set below:

The perfect type of flower for those of us without a green thumb: they don’t wilt or wither, they don’t require food or water, and if you don’t like the colour, it’s easy to change it!

Thanks for joining me today. If you’d like to add more flowers to your vintage image collection, check out the previous post I made on the subject: Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere: 11 Vintage Flower Images

2 Vintage Wildlife Postcards

Today I have two lovely old wildlife postcards to share with you. They entered my collection before the pandemic started, and I was a little uncertain about how to present them because I don’t have many in this category.

So I just thought, oh, what the heck. Let’s just toss these in here as they are.

Dawn in the Forest is a beautiful woodland scene of deer by a river. This postcard would have been released in the early 1900s to 1910s, and was one of a series. What a peaceful image. It is numbered 5621. The title and numbers may be cropped off for a project, if desired, or carefully removed with the healing brush.

From a painting by Moritz Muller the younger, likely, the original art piece was from the early 1900s. He and his father both enjoyed painting hunting scenes. This is a mostly-peaceful picture, at least, and very nice to look at.

I hope you enjoyed today’s selection!

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Hands Across the Sea Antique Postcard

Here we have one of my absolute favourites.

At the time when postcards were at their height, most overseas mail was coming in by ship. Vessels like RMS Titanic carried mail from England to North America and vice-versa, making it possible for people to keep in touch with relatives far away during a time before telephones and internet. Of course, if the vessel containing your postcard went down… you get the idea.

Give a toast to the Royal Mail ships of old and the planes of today! And, perhaps, consider getting into the habit of sending postcards to your loved ones, because it’s still a joy to get something in the mail that isn’t a bill.

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